Pierre-Luc Bacon is a PhD candidate in the School of Computer Science at McGill University, whose research interests
are in reinforcement learning. He received the Outstanding
Student Paper Award at AAAI’2017 for his work on the
option-critic architecture.

Doina Precup shares her time between McGill University,
where she codirects the Reasoning and Learning Lab, and
DeepMind Montreal. Her research interests are in machine
learning, especially reinforcement learning, reasoning and
planning under uncertainty, and applications of these
methods. She became a senior member of AAAI in 2015, a
Canada research chair in 2016, and a senior fellow of CIFAR
in 2017.